Read the attached document. Make an outline for a 700-word argumentative essay in response to it.

Lorenzo Mauldin of the New York Jets is carted off the field after suffering a concussion in a game on Sept. 13.His body wrecked at 36, Antwaan Randle Elregrets ever playing in the National Football League. After he died of an overdose of pain medication at 27, Tyler Sash was found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the degenerative brain disease believed to be caused by repeated blows to the head. Concussion diagnoses have increased by about a third since the league let independent medical officials assess players. And it seems that with each N.F.L. veteran’s death, another diagnosis of C.T.E. is revealed.

How can fans enjoy watching a game that helps ruin players’ lives?

Do You Like to Watch Football? Then Watch What Really Happens.

Markus Koch played six years for the Washington Redskins, including on their Super Bowl championship team in 1988. He is a holistic health practitioner.

Football is a spectacle of extreme athleticism, controlled mayhem and violence that entertains our thirst for domination. To really appreciate the glories of the game and what it does, though, maybe fans should watch more of it, and get closer to the real game.

Try 24-hour coverage of a player's life, as they pop pills and get surgery. Then 'game suits' can let fans feel every 'tremendous hit' on the field.Perhaps, to really show the game fully and augment the experience, telemetric technology imbedded in uniforms could inform viewers of the condition of the anterior cruciate ligament, broken forearm or separated shoulder of their favorite players. 

Helmets could discolor and ooze when the dura mater in a player’s cranium is damaged.

The N.F.L. could find yet another revenue stream with a downloadable app that could load metrics into a “game suit” featuring pneumatic devices allowing fans to feel every blindside sack by a 350-pound lineman, every “tremendous hit” experienced on the field.

So everyone should intensely watch that linebacker with the steel plate over the 14-day-old fracture in his arm as he throws himself into the fray, and really, really identify ourselves with our by our disposable Sunday afternoon hero.

Better yet, if we can stomach it, how about 24-hour coverage of what he’s gone through in the days leading up to his moments of fleeting glory? Did the screws go into his arm cleanly as the surgeon installed the plate? Is the Toradol and Novocaine kicking in?

My God, how brave and proud we must feel! Watch. Watch closely. See everything.Nobody, outside of our families -- if they’ve been able to stick it out – gets to see the underpinnings of our bravery, our pride and perhaps our greed. 

Years later, when the cameras are gone, and our minds go “funny,” our legs don’t work, our backs are a contracted morass of inflexible knots that won’t let us sit in a chair with the kids at Christmas, we’ll resort to bottles and pills that we don’t want our kids to know about. By then, we’ll be on our own. 

Once, everyone wanted to watch us. Once, we wanted everyone to see us play. But now, unless a player is arrested after flying into a violent rage, or blows out his C.T.E.-infused brains under a highway overpass, there will be no televised coverage of our greatest challenges.

Football Is Safer Than It Has Ever Been

Marvin Washington played for 11 years in the N.F.L. and was a member of the Denver Broncos' Super Bowl championship team in 1998. He is an advocate for players dealing with the effects of concussions and is a sports advisory board member for Axim Biotechnologies.

I know this is contrary to public opinion, but the game of football is safer than it has ever been, and is evolving into an even safer game.

Over the last few years, the N.F.L. has made 39 rule changes to enhance player safety. Kickoffs were moved to the 35-yard line from the 30-yard line to increase touchbacks and decrease dangerous kickoff returns. A more rigorous protocol was established for dealing with concussions. Independent medical spotters can now call a timeout if they see that a player may have been concussed. Receivers on a pass that is intercepted are now classified as defenseless players. These are just a few recent changes that have had measurable results.

Instead of boycotting the N.F.L., fans should demand even more from the N.F.L., that it lead the science on brain injuries.The major problem is with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the brain disorder that is the N.F.L.'s industrial disease. Just this week, two great quarterbacks, Ken Stabler and Earl Morrall where added to the list of former players who were found to have suffered from C.T.E.These problems, though, can be solved with better equipment and research. So instead of boycotting the N.F.L., the American people should demand more from the N.F.L. Dr. Bennet Omalu, who discovered C.T.E. in 2005, and Dr. Robert Stern at Boston University, are leading the efforts to understand the connection between concussions and C.T.E. All options must be explored. Instead of “following the science” as Roger Goodell likes to say, the N.F.L. needs to lead the science.

So as you watch the Super Bowl on Sunday, know you are watching an evolving game and that it is safer than it has ever been. Football has great life lessons and instead of shunning it, let’s all come together to make the game safer.

Football Has Become Too Real to Watch

Eric Buchman is a Los Angeles-based TV writer whose credits include Lifetime’s "Drop Dead Diva" and ABC’s "Grey’s Anatomy."

I went from casual football fan to rabid fan in 1998. My sister had just passed away and I was taking time off from college. 

Back home in Florida, surrounded by so much sorrow, the N.F.L. became a refuge. On Sundays, I’d feel either the joy of my team winning or the pain of their defeat. But I wouldn’t feel grief. The sport distracted me in a way no other form of entertainment could.

Football went from being a distraction from life’s harsh realities to a reminder of them.

My fandom crested in 2003 when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won the Super Bowl. I was in the stands of Qualcomm Stadium, cheering them on. My ticket stub is framed. I still have a souvenir cup. 

Over the past decade, though, football went from being a distraction from life’s harsh realities to a reminder of them. The thrill of watching a player get up after a big hit has been replaced with the concern that he’s unknowingly suffering permanent brain damage – damage the N.F.L. has gone to extreme lengths to cover up. While the N.F.L. punished Mike Vick for victimizing animals for sport, they knowingly victimized humans for sport. 

Further, the N.F.L.’s influence has turned college athletics into a minor league with major problems. Players are recruited too young, used up too quickly, and left ill-prepared for the real world when their careers flame out, their young bodies riddled with arthritis, their future brains ripe with C.T.E. 

Even sadder, some of these players aren’t helping their cause with their habitual abuse of women, children and drugs while the league looks the other way. With nearly a dozen N.F.L. franchises employing a least one player who’s been formally accused of sexual assault, it’s hard to root for a team when there’s a chance you’re also rooting for a rapist.

Then there are the owners. When they aren’t defending racist mascots or getting into their own legal trouble, they’re conspiring to suck every last penny they can from loyal fan bases. Football stadiums have come to embody trickle-down economics for the 21st century. Billions of tax dollars have been directed toward stadiums under the promise that the money will spread back into the community. The return on the investment rarely comes as promised, and cities get stuck with the bill for decades, paying for them even after the team leaves. 

A lot of these issues aren’t endemic only to the N.F.L. But the N.F.L. has done a horrible job dealing with them, frequently choosing to obfuscate rather than reform.

Football, simply put, just isn’t fun to watch anymore. It’s become way too real.

I’m Ambivalent but Supportive of the N.F.L.

Latria Graham writes for various media outlets, including The Guardian and SB Nation’s Longform vertical. She is on Twitter.

I grew up watching football. It was a wonderful way to connect with my father as he was dying of cancer. And I’ll continue watching it.

Still, I’m ambivalent toward the N.F.L. and its toxic ecosystem — on the field, and off – even as it is starting to confront some of its cultural issues.Players see the opportunity for heartbreak, and tremendous potential for their larger aspirations. But fans need to help them.

I've interviewed retired players who hadn’t understood that the risks they were facing were far greater than tearing an anterior cruciate ligament. I’ve seen the devastation firsthand with a fellow Dartmouth alum and family friend, Reggie Williams, the retired Cincinnati Bengals linebacker who has had 24 surgeries on his knees and recently had a stroke – C.T.E. was my first concern.

Many of the current players I’ve interviewed saw the heartbreak that Junior Seau’s family endured after he committed suicide. They see N.F.L. veterans who can barely walk and know about the rapid decline in cognitive function in later years. They’ve read about Antwaan Randle El’s regrets about playing football — so have their spouses.

It’s heartbreaking to see the cognitive decline of so many intelligent, charismatic, men. What will happen to others?

The San Francisco 49ers linebacker Chris Borland retired last year at age 24 because of concerns about concussions. But John Urschel, an offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens who loves the challenge and elegance of mathematics, continues to play because he loves the game as well.

They are free to make their choices. Sports have the potential to give voices to the disenfranchised, and they provide economic and educational opportunities available to young African-American men. When I profiled Josh Norman of the Carolina Panthers, I saw how he used his nonprofit, Starz24, to address issues of food insecurity and income disparity in his hometown of Greenwood, S.C. I realized that for some athletes, the football field is a platform for larger aspirations — it gives them a chance to nurture young athletes and be an inspiration in their communities.

But the league has to act aggressively to make the game safer still, by changing rules, introducing safer tackling techniques and better helmet technology, and providing better and more supportive medical care.

Football can be safer if the public demands it. I wonder if everyday fans understand the power they hold. There's a reason that the N.F.L.'s public relations offices pander to the fans. If players and fans make safety a priority, it will be in the N.F.L.'s interest to respond.

If they are going to watch the game, fans must care about and respect the players who submit themselves physically and cognitively to the rigors of football.